European police agency Europol has deployed a team of undercover agents across Greece’s migrant registration centers, or hot spots, with the aim of stopping the infiltration of ISIS operatives and curbing the activity of other criminal networks. A total of 10 undercover officers have been deployed on the islands of Lesvos, Samos, Chios and Leros as well as the port of Piraeus, where currently 4,500 regugees and migrants are camping.
In an interview with Kathimerini’s Sunday edition, Robert Crepinko, the Slovenian director of Europol’s newly-launched European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC), said that the undercover officers are currently stationed in the hot spots with the task of checking suspicious immigrants against Europol’s databases in the Netherlands.
“Together with the Greek authorities we are doing secondary security checks to assess the possibly dangerous migrants before they would enter the EU,” Crepinko said.
On top of filtering out suspected extremists, Crepinko said, the operation aims to support Greek authorities in other areas related to organized crime and migrant smuggling.
The operation was decided at the emergency summit of EU interior ministers following the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris in November and the process had to be readjusted after the EU Turkey deal.
Crepinko stressed that the Europol officials and Greek authorities are also looking into possible new routes human smugglers would use and said that intelligence shows that smugglers’ networks are exploring options through Albania and Bulgaria.
PS No undercover agent at Idomeni?
European Migrant Smuggling Center will close tomorrow, 60.000 stranded refugees show that the Center didn’t smuggle any, so it’s just a waste if it’s not doing its job and smuggle and traffic people. They can make it also cheap to nothing, as they can charter air-planes they don’t have to pay.
Hmm. Can these Europol undercovers infiltrate people’s secret thoughts??
No, and they cannot detect obvious terrorists either. What they are good at doing is being paid high EU untaxed salaries and convincing idiots that their jobs are very important and absolutely essential.
Via pee-tests they can figure who is cannibal and who is vegetarian, 99,99% of these terrorists are not vegetarian, so let’s say if 1/3 is vegetarian the number of voters feeling safe gets enormous